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Memory clinics and clinical governance
— a UK perspective | | Author(s) | Andrew J Phipps, John T O'Brien |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 17, no 12, December 2002 |
| Pages | pp 1128-1132 |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Quality ; Performance ; Grant allocation ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Memory clinics have developed a wide range of service models, but providing similar functions which include assessment, information, treatment monitoring, education, training and research. Memory clinic development is now taking place in the UK in the context of clinical governance and quality improvement under the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). The literature is reviewed in the context of assessing quality standards. The rationing of health care, both explicit and implicit, is discussed in view of limited capacity and financial resources of the National Health Service (NHS), and the significance of this in determining quality standards is highlighted. The authors offer a generic quality specification for memory clinic development, using mild cognitive impairment as an illustration of the quality standards that might be achieved, and clinical governance systems that must be present if service quality is to be improved. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030122217 A |
| Classmark | E4: L6G: 59: 5H: QCG: 8 |
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